Secrets

the not saying of it
the hush of it
weeping through her
veins through her daughter’s
quiet down the branched roads
of generations

the still of it
the still stain of it
the weary road shale grey
the lie of it

Danielle McShine‘s poetry appears in the anthology Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books, 2011) and she was joint first-place winner of the 2011 Small Axe Literary Competition (Poetry). Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she currently lives in France.